Type bar or slug



. A. H NARROW.

TYPE BAR OR SLUG.

APPLICATION FILED DEC- 2, 1921.

Patented Get. 31, 1922,

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Patented @ct. 331, 1922.

UNHTED STATES ANTON H. NARROW, 0F MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.

TYPE BAR 0R SLUG.

Application filed December 2, 1921.

To all whom. it may corwern:

Be it known that I, AN'roN H. NARRoW,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Memphis, in the county of Shelby and State of Tennessee, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Type Bars or Slugs, of which the following is a specification.

My said invention relates to an improved type bar such as may be formed by the machine shown in my co-pending application No. 519,440, of even date herewith.

It is an object of my invention to provide a type bar with means to indicate the point at which the same should be cut off.

Referring to the accompanying drawings which are made a part hereof and on which similar reference characters indicate similar parts,

(Iifigure 1 is a perspective of my invention, an

Figure 2 is a side elevation thereof.

In the drawings 10 indicates a type bar of conventional length bearing printing characters 11 of any usual form and to any desired extent as is customary in the art. This type bar also carries a projection 12 which as here shown is of substantially equal hei ht with said characters, althoug it cou d be higher than the letters or even of less height and still perform its functions. This projection is spaced from the end letter S at such a distance that when the projection is held against a straight edge properly located on a sawing machine of ordinary design the saw will cut through between the projection and said adjacent letter at such a distance as to space the letter to the desired extent from the left margin of the column. This as will be understood may be the ordinary small space of a point or two but for display advertising it may be several inches and the projection must be spaced to a corresponding extent from the letter nearest thereto which may be done by inserting a suificient number of blank members between the jaws of a linotype machine all as explained in my! above mentioned copending application.

As is well known it is customary to cast type bars of a certain maximum length regardless of the ultimate length of the line of type which is to be set up in the form. After the bar has been cast it is measured from the right hand end and cut off to the desired length. This is done by means of a sawing machine having an adjustable gauge Serial No. 519,441.

and the gauge must be changed every time the length of the line changes so that in the case of display type the gauge must be manipulated very frequently Which causes a great waste of time. By the use of my device all that is necessary is to provide a straight edge at the other side of the saw from the usual gauge, the ultimate length of the type bars being measured in effect from the left end of the bar or the right hand end of the line, contrary to the present practice. As many type bars as can conveniently be handled at one operation are then placed on the saw table and pushed toward the straight edge so that the measure finding projections abut against the straight edge after which the saw is operated to cut all the type bars between the type and said projection. All the bars are thus cut off at the right length on the left end, thereby doing away with any necessity of filling in with quads at the left end of a line if the print is intended to begin at a distance therefrom.

Having thus fully described my said invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A display type bar having a part to be cut off, and an upward projection spaced from the lettering on the bar and of substantially equal height therewith, said projection indicating the point of severance of the bar, substantially as set forth.

2. A display ty'pe bar having a part projecting to the left of the printing surface and means thereon indicating the position of the ultimate left-hand margin, substantially as set forth.

3. A display type bar having a portion to be cut oil projecting beyond the printing surface and means on the bar to indicate the length to be cut off, substantially as set forth.

4. A type bar having a portion to be cut off projecting to the left of the printing surface and means on the bar to indicate the length to be severed, substantially as set forth.

5. A type bar of conventional length having a portion projecting beyond the printing surface and adapted to be cut ofi, and means to indicate the point of severance, substantially as set forth.

6. A display type bar having beyond the printing surface a part 'to be cut off and provided immediately beyond said point with an upward projection, substantially as In witness whereof, I have hereunto set set forth.

7. A display type bar having beyond the this 23rd day of November, A. D. nineteen printing surface a part to be out off and hundred and twenty-one.

provided immediately beyond said point ANTON H. NARROW. [L. s.] with an upward projection of greater height Witnesses: than said printing surface, substantially JOHN W. FARLEY,

as set forth. F. M. BAILEY.

- my hand and seal at Memphis, Tennessee, 10 

